Investigation work on a hydro scheme in Lochaber allows geologists "spectacular and unique" access.

Scientists with the British Geological Survey (BGS) have been given a unique opportunity to study rock core samples taken ...

Around 1.2 billion years ago – give or take a few million – the northwest of Scotland was shaken to its core and a huge chunk of rock weighing nearly a quarter of a million tons and longer than a ...

James Hutton's visit to Siccar Point in the 1780s led to a change in the way the history of the Earth is understood.

THE late Dr. B. N. Peach, of the Scottish Geological Survey, is well known to have advocated the view that the Moine gneiss, the most extensive formation in Scotland, is the metamorphosed eastern ...

Two Scottish sites have been included on a list of globally important geology. Siccar Point in the Scottish Borders is regarded as the birthplace of geological science. The second feature, the ...

Rock drilled from Great Glen Fault gives rare look into distant geological past - The fault was formed as part of the initial ...

A VIEWPOINT which overlooks one of the world's most important geological sites could be set to receive a major upgrade ...

Irresponsible drilling of holes into rocks to extract samples threaten to "annihilate" geological features in Scotland, a public body has warned. Rock coring is done for research of rocks' chemical ...

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